Buy or sell stocks, Aug. 13 -- The Indian stock market extended its losing streak to a second straight session on Wednesday, August 12, with the benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, experiencing significant intraday volatility.

Both indices fell nearly 1% at their session lows before recovering most of their losses to close marginally lower. The 30-share BSE Sensex ended 188 points, or 0.24%, down at 77,966.35, while the NSE Nifty 50 settled at 24,435.95, declining 36 points, or 0.15%.

Nifty 50 closed at 24,435.95, down 35.75 points (-0.15%), after witnessing selling pressure during the first half of the session. The index declined to an intraday low of 24,265.25, but witnessed a recovery in the later half and managed to regain the 2...